In my Software Engineering course this term, we’d been recommended to use MagicDraw as our modeling tool. My university provides MagicDraw 11.6 to us for free for academic purpose, but the latest version is 14.0, so I downloaded the free community edition.
I’m a little afraid of to say that MagicDraw is a very good Software because I haven’t used it a lot. However, my experience with it so far is very good. My group used it to draw the use case diagrams and sequence diagrams for our first deliverable. We find MagicDraw is fun to learn, but it’s not just a simple toy; it has the real power and the complexity, but it’s still pleased to work with.
Well, so far, no magic.
The magic happened in this morning. I received a phone call from No Magic Inc., who is company behind MagicDraw. The business representative firstly verified with me that there was no problems since I began to use the Software. Then he asked me some general questions, such as how I feel about MagicDraw, etc.. The whole conversion was very smooth and pleased. In the end, the business representative provided me a key to evaluate the enterprise edition for 30 days. I was very happy to accept that offer.
I just downloaded a free version without paying them, but they make me feel appreciated and make me believe that they care about me, care about their customers. This is what I like about the US companies. I had similar experience with GoDaddy, who is hosting this blog, but it’s another story.
One thing I am pretty sure right now is that I will continue using MagicDraw for the rest of the Software Engineering courses, and for my own side projects; but before this phone call, everything was not that clear. So, I think this is a magic, a business magic.
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